Tagged with music - Personal View Talks

Music video | GH2 Sedna A & Canon FDs

katig — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:54:02 +0000

Music video for Croatian artist Neno Belan. Gh2 Sedna A and Canon FDs (20, 24, 28, 50, 35-105) + few Hoya ND's etc. Unfortunately, the color is bad because my colorist is complete disaster, trying to find a new one. Other equipment: Gini rig and FF, Wondlan carbon stabilizer, Glideshot portable jib...

Apparatus - 9th Wave | Music Video [GH2]

x_worpig_x — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:05:13 +0000

A music video I shot a few months back with Crossfire CM night. Thanks for watching.

crazy music video

sdope79 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:48:53 +0000

filmed with gh2 and carbon stabilizer

and another:

Any tips for shooting my first music video?

jimtreats — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:49:56 +0000

Hi folks,

I've got a local band interested in shooting a music video or two with me after I showed them some footage I got of a small gig of there's shot handheld live with a single camera.

I need to flesh it out with them some more, just exactly what sort of things they're looking for but thought it'd be a nice thing to ask if anyone here had any tips about attempting my first one?

I think we'll be shooting multiple takes with the band miming over the top of a sync track which will be used for the actual audio in the final video. I guess I'm wondering first about the best way to tackle the syncing issue. I'll record with the camera the sound in the room so should be able to here this sync track and sync all the clips to the actual music properly before I start editing... Wondering the best way to go about that tho, obviously can't rely on a clapperboard as such, and when the artists start miming to the track I'll likely hear they're instruments over the sync track so I wonder if having a small bit of un-mimed to music at the front of every take may be the best idea for having something clear to sync with.

I'll try to edit with FCPX, I guess it's multicam work of sorts, not sure if that update dropped.

Who knows how it'll go, I look forward to trying, and would greatly appreciate any suggestions from anyone else on here who's more experienced in these matters.

Cheers

Jim

Welterwerk - GH2 Short / narrative music video

cekrem — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:26:11 +0000

Was DoP on this. Shot on a driftwood-176-intra GH2 with vintage lenses.

Feedback is welcome!

Description from Vimeo: This shortfilm is produced by Welterwerk Filmkompani, a new small filmproduction company based in Oslo. We make musicvideos, shortfilms and commercials. CONTACT US: post@welterwerk.no Directed by ERLEND WESTNES DOP CHRISTIAN EKREM Edit and grading ERLEND WESTNES Post effects and 3d modeling EIVIND JACOBSEN Makeup artist GRETE SKJÆVELAND CAST Machinist LASSE VALDAL Girl YVONNE / TEAM Boy ALEKSANDER M. TANGEN / TEAM Music: SIRIUSMO - NIGHTS OFF THANKS Za, Margrethe, TEAMMODELS, UiO and Khang Vinh Tran.

Gameboy Music (Chiptune)

leejb4 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:31:16 +0000

Hey guys, one of my friends is a Chiptune artist and has recently been gaining recognition in the chiptune scene here in virginia. When he found out that I was starting to learn to shoot, he asked if I could shoot a video for him considering chiptune artist here in VA have not ventured that far. So, we didn't spend much time editing the video, but this is the final product!

Fave Music-OT

pvjames — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:01:29 +0000

I have a total off-topic Q. What is your fave music/band/artist? (Not for filming exactly). I'm looking for inspiration. Plan to get into songwriting mode soon. I'm more into modern heavier rock...

Background music, jingles, loops, scoring, fx etc

zigizigi — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:24:35 +0000

А friend of mine introduced me to Apple Logic which has a great loops/fx/jingles library. All sorted by genres, bmp, moods etc. I find it a very convenient construction set for quickly creating music for video needs.

I'm looking for a PC alternative. I use Vegas for video, Cubase for music, but since I'm no longer in audio production I find Cubase being way too complex instrument for my basic video needs. I don't want to program custom drum loops and create midi score from scratch, tweak EQs and FX for hours - all I need is a quickie-bricky loop based construction toy where I can drop few loops and pre-made fx on a timeline to create a jingle for an advert for instance.

Any recommendations? Few years ago I checked Sony Cinescore before it got discontinued and SonicFire but I found them to be not as elegant as Logic. Any progress in this realm ever since?

Music Video I shot with GH2 & Sedna Q20

Americus — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:38:15 +0000

Thanks to @driftwood and the folks of this site for giving me the tools and info to make this. Your patches make my state of Kentucky look awesome! This is my first post on the site, but I love peeping it everyday. Enjoy!

Need some music choices for mountain climbing vid

ed_lee83 — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:57:14 +0000

Hello all, I just filmed a 3-day hike up & down Mount Apo, Philippines for an NGO, and am looking for some 'inspirational' and progressive tunes to go with the edit. Here's something I like:

It's a non-commercial video so copyright doesn't matter. Thanks in advance!

Let It Rain - A Rainy Day Shoot

arteology — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:15:19 +0000

There was a hailstorm here last week. Luckily we had the camera with us at the right time. Our friends had a really good time playing in the rain, we tried to capture some of the enjoyable moments and thought of making it into a small music video. Also this is the first time we tried to pull off some ultra slow motion shots with our Canon 550D. Hope you all like it. Thanks

Joanna St. Claire's New Single "Prayer of Light" Music Video - Shot in Part with GH2 Sedna AQ1 C

thepalalias — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:23:50 +0000

Joanna St. Claire and I just finished the music video for "Prayer of Light" and released the single on iTunes.

Check out the videos (YouTube and Vimeo) at http://perlichtman.com/pasdenapulse/wordpress/2012/04/04/joanna-st-claires-new-single-and-music-video-prayer-of-light/

I will be writing an article on the production soon!

And here is the song link!

iTunes

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/prayer-of-light-single/id516408352?uo=4

YouTube version (1080P)

Standard Vimeo (1280P but possibly better compression than YouTube)

GH2 Slow Motion Music Video

deturbanator — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:48:22 +0000

Unfortunately the slow motion of the video did not come out so prominently. I had the singer sing his song 2x as fast, while I recorded at 60fps. Slowed it down, and then synced the audio. But even at 2 times the speed, the singer had a hard time singing the song. I couldn't imagine making the slow motion effect any bigger.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to improve this effect? Any general comments or criticisms? Feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

Music Video shot with hacked GH2 and Lomo Anamorphic Lenses.

simonstar66 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:55:29 +0000

Quantum v7. / 720 60p. / Lomo Anamorphic square front 35mm & 50mm / Converted in 5DtoRGB / Edited in Final Cut Pro / Graded with Davinci Resolve

Big thanks to Vitaliy and Driftwood!!

Enjoy. I'd be happy to hear comments or answer questions.

GH2 Hacked 150mbits music video!!!!!

madmax — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:24:33 +0000

I tried to put this whole hack thingy to the real test so shot a music video using the GH2 hack 150mbits. Let me know what you think...

Music Video 'Spremiagrumi' made with a hacked GH2

Elenion — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:38:25 +0000

This summer i made this music video for the young italian pop musician Andrea Pinsuti. Two days of shooting in a theater, zero budget and just me doing everything with the help of natives. Tokina 11-16, Konica 40 1.8. Gh2 hacked with standard 42mb/s. I was happy with the quality of 1080 and unhappy with 720 (that now is hugely improved). I'd like you to judge and give some advices!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ccZ1G0VQoes

Synful Orchestra

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:59:16 +0000

It is quite weird synth using very different approach to both samplers and physical modellers.

Web:
http://www.synful.com/index.htm

User guide:
http://www.synful.com/Synful_Orchestra_Users_Guide.pdf

Some short description
http://www.synful.com/RPM.htm

Papers, patents:
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/09/07/synful.html?page=1 (interview with author)
https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22Eric+Lindemann%22 (Patents)
http://www.mendeley.com/research/music-synthesis-reconstructive-phrase-modeling/
http://www.synful.com/AboutUs.htm (About page with links to related patents, etc)
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-lindemann/15/288/500

Good article

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:21:32 +0000

I’ve been getting emails from people wanting help to start their music careers for many years, and I’ll always offer as much advice and support as I can. Most of it involves me, rather pathetically, commiserating with people that Steven Spielberg never got back to them about that demo CD.
Thanks to the massive number of deeply mediocre music tech courses spewing out huge numbers of over‑qualified and under‑experienced kids with virtually no hope of employment, a good number of people recently have been sending begging emails, offering to make me coffee and sweep my studio floor for two years just for the experience. For free. And a good number of those people have degrees. One was even a PhD.

In sharp contrast, I’m beginning to suspect there’s also something about this bit of the industry that seems to attract the Stupids. The bloke who came to fix my Aga recently asked me if I knew anyone at the BBC.
“Yeah, a few people. Why?” I asked.
“Wondered if you could put in a word for me and get me a job.”
“Er, doing what? Fixing ovens?”
“Dunno really. Maybe writing telly music or something? I know they don’t have adverts but I could play guitar like on some of their shows, and stuff.”
Recently, I stumbled across a post in an online recording forum asking what was the best way to mic up an accordion. We’ve all got to start somewhere, and yes of course it never hurts to ask and all that, but really? I’m going to make the staggeringly harsh prediction that if pointing the business end of a microphone towards the part of the instrument making the noise and pushing Record is a bit of a stretch for you, the chances are that there will be other elements of the multi‑billion pound, fiercely competitive UK music industry that will leave you feeling a bit like a guinea pig trying to follow a game of Monopoly.

This is a crowded profession, and most of the people it actually manages to sustain still feel only a heartbeat away from career flame‑out and starvation. And yet despite the huge amounts of information available about publishing, commissioning, marketing strategies, developing and growing your craft, there is still a frighteningly large number of people out there who genuinely think the likes of EMI and Universal Music actually open the thousands of Jiffy bags with CDs in that they get sent each week. Amazing.

So what advice can I offer? Start early. If you aren’t working full‑time in the music business (in whatever capacity) by the time you are 20, it’s almost certainly too late. Get really, really good at what you want to do. Meet as many other people in the industry as you possibly can, except musicians. Specialise in your chosen field as soon as you decide what it is. Keep doing it despite all the setbacks, and don’t ever expect to make any money at it. Know who your clients are and understand what they want and how they pay for it. Know your limitations and your strengths.

And above all, whatever you do, never, ever send me MP3 files of arrangements of Metallica songs performed on a General MIDI synth along with a note saying “Could you kindly pass these on to Hans Zimmer for me?” You know who you are. You bastard.

Via: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/notes-0911.htm

How The Ear Works

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:20:39 +0000

This small organ has quite a few surprises in store for us. We’ see that it’s literally crammed with equalisers and dynamic compressors, including a multi‑band one. It even includes an extremely efficient filter bank, as well as a highly sophisticated analogue‑to‑digital converter. Armed with this knowledge, sometimes referred to as ‘psychoacoustics’, we’ll discover numerous practical consequences for music production. Those include the choice of monitoring level, ideas for how to deal with bass frequencies in a mix, and a surprising antidote to frequency overlap.

Note that this article won’t attempt to cover psychoacoustics in its entirety. In particular, we’ll be restricting our focus to monaural audition and setting aside the notion of integration time, which is the audio equivalent of ‘persistence of vision’. Stay tuned for future articles covering stereo image issues and the very diverse uses one can make of the ear’s integration time in music production.

We’ll start our study of the ear by looking at Figure 1, on top. This drawing shows the morphology of the ear, as usually represented. This is divided into three sections. The outer ear consists of the auditory canal and the exterior of the tympanic membrane, better known as the eardrum. The malleus, incus and stapes, which are small bones often referred to as ossicles, belong to the middle ear, along with the interior of the tympanic membrane. Then there is the inner ear, which includes the cochlea and the semicircular canals. Last, we find two nerves that connect the ear to the brain. (The semicircular canals and vestibular nerves don’t relay any information relating to hearing; their purpose is to give us a sense of gravity and balance, so we’ll leave them aside.)
Figure 1: The morphology of the human ear (diagram derived from Chittka L, Brockmann A (2005): Perception Space — The Final Frontier, www.plosbiology.org).
Figure 1: The morphology of the human ear (diagram derived from Chittka L, Brockmann A (2005): Perception Space — The Final Frontier, www.plosbiology.org).
What we call ‘sound’ is in fact a progressive acoustic wave — a series of variations in air pressure, spreading out from whatever source made the sound. When these pressure variations strike the ear, they find their way through the external auditory canal to the tympanic membrane, setting it into vibration. The signal is thus converted to mechanical vibrations in solid matter. These vibrations of the tympanic membrane are transmitted to the ossicles, which in turn transmit them to the cochlea. Here the signal undergoes a second change of nature, being converted into pressure variations within liquid. These are then transformed again by specialised hair cells, which convert the liquid waves into nervous signals.

Read the rest at: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar11/articles/how-the-ear-works.htm

Asher Roth Feat. Akon Music video shot with GH13

magnus387 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:04:40 +0000

This is the continuation of Color Grading thread I posted, but I thought it was worth separating the two.

I shot this video at the end of July with a GH13 and a Red Mx. All of the body mounted shots that you see of the artist running around in were done with the GH13.

The concept of the video was inspired by graphic novels, and a bleeding of reality with dynamic illustrations. As a result I attempted to give the footage an HDR, almost drawn-in look. Enjoy!

Hip Hop video with 42mb hack

n_vitro — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:58:03 +0000

Just wrapped up this video with the gh2. Shot with 20mm 1.7, canon fd 50mm 1.4, 14-42 kit lens and a Tamron 28-105 2.8. I just picked up an AF100, but the gh2 will still get tons of use!

Teaser Music Video shot on a hacked GH2 - " Sons - KJZDKJSS "

RBertoni — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:57:37 +0000

Gear:

Hacked Panasonic GH2 (Driftwood 176 GOP1 patch)
1000w Arri Juniors,
Novoflex MFT-NIK adapter (new version)
Sigma 10-20mm f/4.0-5.6
Nikkor DX 35mm f/1.8
Nikkor af-d 50mm f/1.4
Nikkor af-s 70-200 VR
LCW ND Fader
Custom Gini-Cavision carbon rig
Transcend 16gb sdhc cards
Smoke Machine

Sons - KJZDKJSS
Full music video and short film coming in 2012...

Production: NoVa, November 2011
Shot and directed by Riccardo Bertoni
Edited by Riccardo Bertoni & Marko Zigon

Official Website: sons.si
Official Facebook Page: facebook.com/pages/Sons/16800503029

http://24ur.com/ekskluziv/glasba/kje-je-zdaj-dekle-ki-je-sanjalo-stoje.html (link in slovene)

My blog: riccardobertoni.com
Facebook: facebook.com/bertoniriccardo

© Menart Records & Skupina Sons

Making one's own music

stoney — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:13:19 +0000

Maybe my next item to buy should be an electronic acoustic guitar instead of another lens. Sooner or later we might need to make our own music as it might become forbidden to have licensed music in background even if it's purchased from iTunes.

Music Video, with Hacked GH2 as B-cam - cbrandin 66mb patch

DavidHall — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:46:32 +0000

Music video for band Ball Of Mayhem, shot in 3 hours and with no budget.

A hacked GH2 was used as the B-camera, with ebay bought 50mm 1.8 FD lens. SD card was a 16gb Transcend Class 10.

Music video I shot with my 3 unhacked GH2's

brianluce — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:06:36 +0000

Most overused music from movies and series

Retina — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:00:44 +0000

While watching a documentary on television, I heard one of a few musical pieces from a movie that has been borrowed so many times, that it loses its power. I have a few that I know from the top of my head, and was wondering if others have the same experience. It's possible that these are not overused in your region of the world, if so, enjoy, because they are beautiful. :-)

In no specific order:

From Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie): Comptine d'Un Autre Été (this is the longer version)

From Requiem for a Dream: Theme

From Dexter: Blood Theme

Please share yours, as well!

Music performance shot on GH2vk with cbrandin's 66M settings, 24p

Sam_Mallery — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:42:41 +0000

Here's a short video I just shot with my GH2vk using cbrandin's 66M settings:

I know this is far from a raw MTS file... I had to compress it to 90mb to make the file fast and easy to upload (the promotional nature of the video didn't leave me with much time - I needed to get this out the door ASAP). But, to me, this video shows how nicely the visual quality holds up.

Canon FD 50mm 1.4, set on f1.4, just a regular house lamp for light (with my V96 LED pointed at the back wall with a purple gel over it, to give you something to look at). 24p, highest quality settings on the cam.